sottish

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Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Deering's grin was sottish, the fellow was grossly fat, and he fixed his greedy glance on Stannard's note-book.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

And a swine-herd passed with his swine, Deformed; and I heard him growl; Two eyes of a sottish shine Leered under two brows as foul.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell